| Description Of Item | Notes on Argentaria Pollia (or Polla), the wife of the poet Lucan, who ‘is said to have assisted him in the apt composure of his verses: being no less rich in fancy than he himself when most enlivened by a poetical fury’.
Copied from Richard Brathwaite, History surveyed in a brief epitomy, or, A nursery for gentry comprised in an intermixt discourse upon historicall and poeticall relations: wherein is much variety of discourse and modest delight (1651).
Manuscript marginalia in a library copy of William Salmon, Iatrica: seu Praxis Medendi (1684) – library reference M.10.50.
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